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Mahin Sarkar

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

“Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.”

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Manzur Al Matin

LeaderPerson

Influential Supporters & Intellectuals

“Part of the wider civic-information ecosystem surrounding the uprising.”

During the 2024 uprising period, this figure was publicly associated with commentary, advocacy, reporting, or civic support aligned with protest concerns.

Public discourse around accountability, rights, and governance transition in 2024.

Helped shape public interpretation, documentation, or civic momentum around the movement.

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Md. Enamul Hasan

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

“Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.”

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Mehedi Hasan

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

“Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.”

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyr

“He was serving exhausted protesters when he was killed.”

Mir Mugdho was shot in Uttara on 18 July 2024 while distributing food and water to protesters.

Azampur/Uttara protest zone, Dhaka, 18 July 2024.

He became a humanitarian symbol of the uprising and one of its most remembered civilian victims.

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Nahid Islam

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator; later interim-government adviser

“From protest coordination to state transition, he became one of the movement’s central public figures.”

A leading coordinator of Students Against Discrimination, he became one of the public faces of the 2024 quota-reform protests and later served as an adviser in the interim government formed in August 2024.

Dhaka University-linked student coordination; July-August 2024 protest phase and post-uprising transition.

His leadership linked street mobilization with the political transition after 5 August 2024.

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Nasiruddin Patwary

CoordinatorPerson

Students Against Discrimination coordinator, Jatiya Nagorik Committee convener, and National Citizen Party chief coordinator

“A 2024 movement coordinator who later became Jatiya Nagorik Committee convener and National Citizen Party chief coordinator.”

He is associated with Students Against Discrimination's coordination network during July-August 2024. After the uprising, he became convener of the Jatiya Nagorik Committee and later chief coordinator of the National Citizen Party.

Students Against Discrimination, the distributed coordination structures of the July-August 2024 movement, the Jatiya Nagorik Committee, and the post-uprising National Citizen Party.

His profile links the protest coordination network to later attempts to turn uprising-era civic organization into formal youth-led politics and state-reform advocacy.

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Nusrat Tabassum

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator

“A key woman coordinator during the most contentious crackdown phase.”

A female student coordinator publicly named among the six leaders held by DB in late July 2024 during the protest crisis.

Central coordination and rights-pressure period, July 2024.

Her presence highlighted women’s leadership in the movement’s core command layer.

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Pinaki Bhattacharya

LeaderPerson

Influential Supporters & Intellectuals

“Part of the wider civic-information ecosystem surrounding the uprising.”

During the 2024 uprising period, this figure was publicly associated with commentary, advocacy, reporting, or civic support aligned with protest concerns.

Public discourse around accountability, rights, and governance transition in 2024.

Helped shape public interpretation, documentation, or civic momentum around the movement.

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Rashidul Islam Rifat

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

“Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.”

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Rifat Rashid

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

“Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.”

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Riya Gope

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

“Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.”

Riya Gope is recorded in public reporting and memorial discourse as a child victim associated with the July 2024 uprising.

Because available accounts differ in detail, her profile is presented cautiously as a memorial record rather than as a complete biographical account.

Remembering Riya Gope keeps attention on the civilian and child victims whose deaths formed part of the uprising’s human cost.

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Saima Ahmed

LeaderPerson

Grassroots & Digital Influencer

“Part of the wider civic-information ecosystem surrounding the uprising.”

During the 2024 uprising period, this figure was publicly associated with commentary, advocacy, reporting, or civic support aligned with protest concerns.

Public discourse around accountability, rights, and governance transition in 2024.

Helped shape public interpretation, documentation, or civic momentum around the movement.

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Sarjis Alam

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator and spokesperson

“One of the movement’s most visible on-camera coordinators.”

A nationally visible coordinator, he was among the student leaders taken into DB custody in July 2024 and became one of the most quoted public voices of the movement.

Nationwide anti-discrimination protests; detention and media-facing phase in July 2024.

He helped sustain public messaging during the movement’s most volatile period.

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Shadik Kayem

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

“Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.”

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Shaheed Rudro

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

“Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.”

Shaheed Rudro is recorded in public reporting and memorial discourse as a student victim associated with the July 2024 uprising.

Available public accounts preserve his place in the movement’s casualty memory but do not yet provide a sufficiently complete biography for stronger claims.

His remembrance represents the student and civilian losses that shaped public accounts of the July movement.

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Shahidul Alam

LeaderPerson

Influential Supporters & Intellectuals

“Part of the wider civic-information ecosystem surrounding the uprising.”

During the 2024 uprising period, this figure was publicly associated with commentary, advocacy, reporting, or civic support aligned with protest concerns.

Public discourse around accountability, rights, and governance transition in 2024.

Helped shape public interpretation, documentation, or civic momentum around the movement.

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Sharif Osman Hadi

LeaderPerson

Student political activist, teacher, and Inquilab Mancha spokesperson

“A visible organizer and speaker in the 2024 uprising who later remained active in post-uprising political debates.”

He became a visible organizer and speaker in the 2024 student-citizen uprising, was identified with Inquilab Mancha as a spokesperson, and later remained active in public discussions around accountability, justice, reform, and sovereignty after the uprising.

Student political activism, teaching, Inquilab Mancha, the July-August 2024 student-citizen uprising, and post-uprising accountability and reform politics.

His role is linked to protest messaging, public mobilization, and the transition from street protest to post-uprising political demands around justice, reform, and national sovereignty.

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Sinthia Jaheen Ayesha

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

“Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.”

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Syeda Rizwana Hasan

LeaderPerson

Rights lawyer and interim-government adviser

“A long-standing civic-rights voice present in the transition cabinet.”

A leading rights and environmental lawyer, she publicly supported accountability demands and later joined the interim advisory council.

Civil-society response during uprising and post-uprising governance.

Her role reinforced rights-focused framing around justice and institutional reform.

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